Synergistic Red Fuse ...

Mapman,
With your 50 CD box set of MLP recordings you own far more than I do. I have a few MLP CDs of Janos Starker accompanied by pianist Gyorgy Sebok and both the music and recording sound quality are fabulous.

Al, I know you are an aficionado of the classical music genre. My classical music collection and knowledge is miniscule compared to jazz music. Gyorgy Sebok was a complete unknown to me up until 2 weeks ago. I spent hours a couple of weekends ago listening to him accompanying cellist Janos Starker, it was beautiful.

Al,
Are you familiar with Sebok?
Do you enjoy his playing?
What is his stature amongst the hierarchy of classical pianist (yes I know, purely subjective)?
Do you have any recordings of him and/or any suggested recommendations? As a classical music novice I really like him playing along with Starker.
Thanks,
Charles

Fleschler just wrote,

"Low bass performance on the Mercury CDs are not lacking at all in any of the 3 pressings. They sound veryI focused, dynamic and tonally correct."

Uh, there appears to be some disparity between your two statements regarding Mercury Liivng Presence CDs. Your first statement indicated some dissatisfaction with at least some of the Mercury CDs, to whit,

"I have two complete sets of the classical Mercury Living Presence CDs (as well as the boxed versions) in which many of them have tonally different sound, one set is generally brighter and more forward sounding and the other more rounded and less forward sounding. It’s a mystery as to why it is that way."

If they have tonally different sound, as you say, they can’t all have accurate tonality, no?

As for bass performance, everything is relative. You maybe perfectly content with yours but all I’m saying it can be improved. Everything can be improved. Can I suggest, as they say in Nebraska, you ain’t heard nothin yet?

Everything is relative. - A. Einstein

Wow. Listening to Sebok and Starker on The Mercury Living Presence label right now (Roon & Tidal).  Brahms & Mendelssohn Cello Sonatas. It is just beautiful. Love to hear about other pieces like this beauty! 

George,
I wish I knew how to post links, but I don't. But if you google "PS Audio fuses" you'll find two articles written by Paul McGowan regarding fuses. One is simply titled "Fuses" dated 2/29/16 and the other titled "Lighting the Fuse" dated 12/15/11. I don't share this to be combative, but to offer links showing manufacturers stating their belief that fuses can make a positive sonic benefit. Decware does also. I shall find Steve Deckerts thoughts on them and post them. 

Quotes from his "Fuses" article....

"Here's a subject that drives some people nuts, fuses." ( Ain't that a fact!)

" I first became aware of fuses and their sonic differences in the 1980's."

" The point of the story is simple. Fuses matter. But why should they matter in an AC circuit? I don't have a great answer handy."

Quotes from "Lighting the Fuse" article.....

" I can't explain why some fuses with the identical wire whisker size sound differant but they surely do- a lot different."

" If your equipment has an internal fuse, give some thought to upgrading it to a better sounding variety."

So while the head of PS Audio clearly believes fuses can make a positive sonic difference, he's at a loss to explain why. He looks at fuses as a necessary safety evil and talks about equipment sounding better without them....but isn't advocating not using them!  He also mentions how after spending so much on power cords and improving our power that it is all bottlenecked by a quarter inch of a whisker wire. Looking at it that way maybe the fuse is more important to than we thought? 

mapman
I have 1st 50 cd MLP box set and all ripped at original resolution to music server. It’s a wonderful sounding set with top notch sound quality overall. The sound quality MLP is renowned for is there in spades. Gk once again is spouting nonsense.

Speaking of resolution you clearly have some personal issues you need to resolve. Besides I’m pretty sure "top notch" is an extremely fuzzy way to describe the sound quality of anything. I would choose to say, by contrast, that in general MLP CDs tend to sound whimpy, threadbare, bass shy, two dimensional, honky, piercing, and like paper mache. Relatively speaking, of course.